Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets’ looming reunion will include more than just the band’s appearance at Cruel World in the Los Angeles area this May, as the trio today announced four more concerts in the western U.S. in the days that follow the festival appearance.
The band — Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins — will follow that May 20 slot at Cruel World with concerts in Oakland, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington, according to a post on the group’s Instagram. See full dates below.
Tickets are on sale now for all four shows: Oakland, Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle.
Love and Rockets last performed live in 2008 with a couple warmup shows and a trio of festival slots, including at Coachella and Lollapalooza. The band’s last album was 1998’s Lift, and its last tour followed that in 1999.
Bauhaus began its latest reunion with a trio of shows in Hollywood in late 2019, then continued with a pandemic-delayed string of headlining dates and festival appearances, including at the inaugural Cruel World festival — which itself was delayed from 2020 to 2022.
The band even released its first new song in 14 years.
In late August last year, however, Bauhaus canceled the remainder of its reunion dates in North America as frontman Peter Murphy entered rehab ” to attend to his health and well-being,” leaving fans wondering if the rest of the band would simply continue on as Love and Rockets.
Love and Rockets 2023 tour dates
May 20: Cruel World Festival, Pasadena, CA
May 21: Fox Theater, Oakland, CA
May 24: Sandy Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, UT
May 25: Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
May 28: Moore Theater, Seattle, WA
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Siouxsie, Love and Rockets, Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, Billy Idol playing Cruel World 2023
- Love and Rockets vinyl reissues, “The Albums 1985-1996” box set announced
- Bauhaus debuts new single “Drink the New Wine” — first new music in 14 years
- Daniel Ash reveals new band and album, says Bauhaus reunion likely to resume in 2022
- Vintage Video: Love and Rockets’ amazing low-budget TV commercial for ‘Express’
- Vintage Video: Love and Rockets bridge old and new in 1996 set at Chilean festival
- Daniel Ash closes door on Love and Rockets: ‘It’s boring for me to do those songs’
Setlist wishful thinking
Motorcycle
All in my Mind(either or both)
Lucifer Sam
Ball of Confusion
Yin and Yang
If There’s a Heaven Above
The Game
Haunted
The Light
It Could Be Sunshine (with sax)
Rainbird
Life in Laralay
Sad and Beautiful World
An American Dream
Leave out:
No Big Deal
So Alive
I Feel Speed
Dog-end
Of course they would play So Alive, and Dog End should be there too.
Cool set list, I like. If they’re breaking out the sax then they got do The telephone is empty too!
That is a great sax solo for sure.
Thanks for the tip Matt! Scored tix to the Seattle show.
Where’s the Bubblemen?
Nik…”the Bubblemen are coming…the Bubblemen are here!”
My 12 y.o. loves the Bubblemen…brilliant!!
I have purchased and been cancelled on TWICE by Bauhaus in Atlanta. It’d be nice if they expanded the tour after this run. I have not seen them since the Fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis, Sept. 2nd, 1989 when the Pixies opened for them… Past due if you ask me.